Hour 2 Ready to Install AIR

Safety Considerations for the AIR Runtime

The Adobe AIR runtime, as alluded to in Hour 1, “Taking in a Deep Breath of AIR,” is a cross-platform runtime that allows much tighter and more access to the desktop operating system than traditional web applications. This wider reach equates to a more intimate relationship with the operating system, so by inference, this increases security concerns. Just as in personal relationships that end up in the therapist’s office, trust can be broken quite easily, and your operating system can end up needing ...

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